Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pride and Prejudice | 2014 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 2 | The Scarlet Letter | 2015 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 3 | Great Expectations | 2015 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 4 | Emma | 2015 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 5 | Jane Eyre | 2016 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 6 | The Count of Monte Cristo | 2017 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 7 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 2017 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 8 | The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe | 2017 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 9 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 2018 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 10 | Sense and Sensibility | 2021 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 11 | Macbeth | 2021 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 12 | Dracula | 2021 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 13 | Romeo and Juliet | 2021 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 14 | The Jungle Book | 2021 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 15 | Hamlet | 2022 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 16 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 2022 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
| 17 | Othello | 2023 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Buy |
Manga Classics is a multi-author graphic novel series that adapts classic literature into manga format. The Scarlet Letter (2015) is the Nathaniel Hawthorne adaptation. The series covers a wide range of classic works from multiple authors, including Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, and Dracula.
The series launched with Pride and Prejudice in 2014 and has grown to seventeen volumes through Othello (2023). Each adaptation pairs a different manga artist with a classic text, and the results range across genres, from Austen’s drawing-room comedies to Shakespeare’s tragedies to Bram Stoker’s horror. The adaptations run several hundred pages each, giving them room to cover the source material in real depth.
These manga versions are often used in classrooms as a way to introduce students to classic texts. The visual format makes dense nineteenth-century prose more approachable, and the series has covered enough ground that readers can find an adaptation for most of the standard high school and college reading lists.